Aharon Yariv

Aharon Yariv (20 December 1920-7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and general.

Biography
Aharon Yariv was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1920 to a Russian-Jewish family, and he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine at the age of 15 and joined Haganah in 1938. He served in the Israel Defense Forces as a field officer before serving as the Israeli military attache in Washington DC, and he headed the IDF's Aman military intelligence from 1964 to 1972. After the 1972 Munich massacre, he became Prime Minister Golda Meir's counterterrorism adviser, directing Operation Wrath of God. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections as a member of Alignment, and he served as Transportation Minister in 1974 and as Information Minister from 1974 to 1975. He resigned from the Knesset in 1977, and he died in 1994.